corpuscle

Example Sentences

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“Is there in our parks any tree more elegant and leafy than the Purkinje corpuscle of the cerebellum or the psychic cell, in other words, the famous cerebral pyramid?” he asked.

From Scientific American

We often refer to our highways, roads and avenues as “arteries,” as if they carried corpuscles instead of cars, platelets rather than pedestrians.

From Washington Post

I used to work as a delivery driver, a job that took me all around the city, my car a tiny corpuscle traveling through the vast bloodstream of Washington.

From Washington Post

My senses seemed supersensitive and I was sure I could hear their food going down, their corpuscles moving through their bloodstreams, their alveoli inflating and deflating.

From Washington Post

One of these receptors, the Pacinian corpuscle, responds to pressure and vibration.

From The Guardian